TCTSY-F's in AustralasiaThe following are all the Australian yoga teachers or yoga teachers/mental health clinicians who are officially certified by the Trauma Center at JRI, MA, USA, to use the TCTSY protocol developed, studied, and empirically validated by the Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute of Brookline, Massachusetts. TCTSY (or TC-TSY) is the only stand-alone Yoga Program endorsed nationwide in the USA by NREPP-SAMHSA as an evidence-based program and practice for traumatic stress, PTSD, complex trauma, dissociative disorders & other related emotional and behavioural problems. The TCTSY-F's below are the only people to hold this official certification in Australasia. All TCTSY-F Facilitators from around the globe can be FOUND HERE

Please click on the links at the end of each teacher's bio to find out where your local TCTSY-F (or TCTSY-F/TCTSY-T) are facilitating TCTSY CLASSES & COURSES and what other TCTSY services they offer.

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Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia​Kristen is an experienced and certified yoga, mindfulness / meditation and Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Facilitator, TCTSY Trainer and a founding member of Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Australia. Kristen has a Masters of Occupational Therapy Practice & post-graduate qualifications in Mental Health Sciences. Kristen works in public psychiatry in family mental health and in private practice as: a Complex & Developmental Trauma and Family Violence Therapist; an Occupational Therapist; a Clinical Consultant, Supervisor & Trainer; a Family Mental Health Clinician (Infant & Parent, Child, Youth and Adult Mental Health); and a Senior Yoga Teacher, Meditation & Mindfulness Practitioner, specialising in TCTSY. Kristen is passionate about integrating yoga and mindfulness into mental health and trauma treatment, and since 2002 she has facilitated yoga to both under served and trauma populations. As Kristen is an Accredited Mental Health Occupational Therapist with Medicare, her clients may claim a rebate for her therapy services via BAMH or alternatively via some private health insurances. Kristen provides professional learning & workshops in TCTSY to organisations, groups, yoga schools & individuals, as well as facilitating TCTSY classes & courses. In September 2017 Kristen will be a facilitator and supervisor of the TCTSY Certification in Melbourne.​If you would like to find out more, or attend a class/course or workshop feel free to contact KristenHERE or via: www.themindfulmovementcentre.com.auOR emailkristenlpringle@gmail.com​

Edwina has a Masters of Social Work Studies, is a qualified yoga teacher and is a founding member of Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Australia. She has worked in a range of settings in the human services sector in Australia and internationally. Edwina is currently working in private practice offering counselling, individual and group TCTSY sessions, and professional supervision, as well as facilitating tailored TCTSY programs to services, schools, and organisations. Edwina believes connection to the body and breath through yoga can provide useful tools for people who have experienced trauma and can ultimately become a part of their pathway to healing. She is dedicated to offering yoga to people who can not access general yoga classes and has facilitated yoga with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women who have experienced sexual assault, people from refugee backgrounds, returned soldiers, and people with drug and alcohol addictions. Edwina hopes to facilitate a warm, safe, and non-judgmental space in which to offer the practice of TCTSY.

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TCTSY-F & TCTSY-T 2016, RN, DRM, DipHerbMed, Dip. Satyananda Yoga.

Location: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Maria holds diplomas in Yoga Teacher Training from VYASA (Bangalore, India) & SYA (India/Australia), is a Level 3/Senior Teacher with Yoga Australia and is a founding member of Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Australia. Maria has over 30 years combined clinical experience as a Registered Nurse, Herbalist, Remedial Massage Therapist and Yoga Teacher, working in both the Australian Public Health Sector as well as Private Practice.​Over her years of practice, Maria has refined the way she supports clients to involve their body in the healing process, Inspired and informed by leaders in the field of Trauma Theory and TCTSY. Maria has worked in private practice since 1998, and is the owner/manager of Centre of Balance – Traditional Health Care & Yoga, based in Hobart, Australia. Since 2005 Maria has facilitated regular yoga classes and workshops, and since 2016 facilitates group and private Trauma Sensitive Yoga classes for those affected by sexual assault, family and domestic violence, PTSD and complex trauma as well as TCTSY workshops.

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Christine is a dedicated yoga and bodywork practitioner with over 40 years experience. She trained as an Alexander Technique teacher, is a Scaravelli inspired teacher (200 hrs), and has obtained a Dip of Satyananda Yoga Training (1500 hrs). Together with her extensive commitment to classical yoga, bodywork and western approaches to include the body in healing, Christine completed the Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY-F) certification in 2017, ensuring her classes are inclusive and accessible to all.Christine facilitates group and individual TCTSY sessions for those affected by sexual assault, family and domestic violence, PTSD and complex trauma. She also teaches community yoga classes suitable for anyone.

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Micki is a certified yoga teacher with over a decade of teaching experience. She has had an interest in working with anxiety and depression through yoga asana and mindfulness practises for several years. Micki has worked with women who have experienced sexual assault, war veterans and their families and people with alcohol and/or drug addiction. It is her personal and family journey that has led her to develop an interest in trauma and treatment resistant PTSD and become a TCTSY facilitator.Micki also has qualifications in Pilates and has worked closely with Physiotherapists over the years. She holds a Diploma of Remedial Massage and has done extensive training in mindfulness practises and meditation. Currently Micki is studying psychotherapy with a view to obtaining a Master’s degree in Gestalt Therapy on completion of her studies.

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Pippa began her yoga journey 20 years ago as a student of Yoga Synergy in Sydney, Australia, inspired by the constantly evolving teachings of Simon Borg-Olivier. She has completed 200hr level teacher trainings with Yoga Synergy (India), Yoga Trinity (Canberra), and the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (Chennai/India) with T.K.V Desikachar. Her work as a practising psychotherapist spans 30yrs and has allowed her to cultivate a sound understanding of how the disciplines of yoga and western psychology inform each other about the development of self and the maintenance of health in body, mind and spirit. With cutting-edge research confirming the links between neuroscience, psychology and contemplative practice she has a particular interest in the application of yoga in the clinical setting with people struggling with Complex Trauma (including those living with the impact of childhood & adult sexual abuse, domestic violence, refugee trauma and substance addictions).Pippa has worked in various clinical settings in addition to private practice. She trained with the Australia and New Zealand Association of Psychotherapy (ANZAP), completed a Bachelor Of Applied Science in Occupational Therapy (Sydney University) and holds a Masters in Peace Studies with the University of New England (UNE).

​Pippa offers TCTSY classes and individual sessions in Canberra and can be contacted on0406 244 011​

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TCTSY-F 2017, RYT, BA SWLocation: Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Martine began her journey with Yoga in her teens accompanying her mother to a Yoga class. Her teacher who was in her 70’s was an inspiration to her due to her strength, flexibility, passion for teaching and joy for life. On hearing of her teacher’s journey with a life threatening, debilitating disease in her 50’s and her journey of healing through Yoga, Martine knew that Yoga was magical and transformative and much more than just a fitness workout. This sparked a passion. Martine then went on to study Social Work and began a career working with disadvantaged Youth. In the Public Housing schemes in her homeland of Scotland, Martine taught Yoga to young people who were traumatised and disadvantaged and saw the hope and joy sharing this relational and physical practice could bring to this group of people. Martine then went on to study for many years gaining certifications in Psychological therapies, including psychodynamic therapy, attachment based therapies, family therapy and child and adolescent therapy, specialising in trauma, depression, anxiety, grief and loss and family and marital therapy.Martine is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker with the Australian Association of Social Workers and has a Medicare Provider number so that clients can claim a rebate for her therapy services, which includes Trauma Sensitive Yoga. Martine began to gain insight into the limitations of talk therapy for people suffering from trauma and acute distress and began to look for other ways of working to support clients with whom she had built a strong therapeutic relationship based on trust and mutual respect. Martine made it her goal to become accredited as a TCTSY-F to offer this way of working with her clients, and as a group class. Martine has opened The Yoga Clinic Perth where she will offer psychotherapy, trauma sensitive yoga classes and workshops for wellbeing.